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CAREER AND VOCATION

These text extracts are taken from "Career and Vocation" by Liz Greene.
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"... Tap the wellsprings of your imagination
Your dreams are more of a reality than what others call reality,
and the wellsprings which offer your life meaning are your intuitions
of the future and your need to translate the realm of the imagination
into creative forms. But you also need a challenge. Bringing that imaginal
realm into manifestation requires more, for your fulfilment, than simply
the translation of one world into another in a beautiful painting or an
exciting novel. You need a crusade, a cause - some imperfection or stasis
in the world, against which you can pit your energy and vision..."

"...The best place is at the centre of the stage As Shakespeare once suggested, all the world is a stage to you,
and all the men and women players; and in your working life you will always
be happiest playing the protagonist rather than the chorus. You need both
an audience and a big stage on which to perform, and you should aim for
the limelight; you would not be satisfied with a career that earns you
money but does not give you a place in which you can shine. The arts provide
a natural sphere in which you can express your creative gifts and gain
the recognition you seek..."

"...Mythologising the mundane world Mundane life holds few attractions for you, unless you can inject
it with the grandeur and beauty of myth - and preferably with yourself
as one of the leading figures in the drama. You have a powerful need to
express yourself and inject your imagination into any work you do. You
would find it very difficult to stifle your competitive spirit and your
need to be larger-than-life in your style and in what you are contributing
to the world. Caught in a work situation where you are no one special,
you are likely to slide into depression or begin to create crises in order
to feel you are alive. Avoid this kind of trap by seeking a high-profile
position, either as the front person for an organisation or department,
or independently through creative work. You are prepared to tolerate uncertainty
and swings in fortune in your working life, provided you feel your work,
and you yourself, are of significance in the grand scheme of things..."

"...Being first and best
You can be highly competitive, and you love the feeling that
you have won over others. You feel more alive and vital when you are proving
yourself in this way. If you are a physical type of person, the world
of sport may attract you; and you certainly have the physical stamina
to push hard to achieve your goals, whether or not you engage in actual
physical competition. You may express your competitive spirit on the intellectual
level as well, or through a creative vehicle where you are competing against
other writers, artists, or performers to win the prize or achieve the
best critical reviews..."

"...The perennial quest for greener pastures
You have a rich imagination and a restless spirit, and you are
more excited by the journey than by the goal. This means that you need
constant new challenges and new projects which can stimulate your thinking
and expand your world-view. You look forward rather than backward, and
are more interested in potentials than in facts. You need work which can
give you plenty of freedom to move, intellectually and also physically.
You are hungry for nowledge and new places and people, and your work needs
to accommodate that hunger. Travel could be an important requirement in
your work, specially if you can travel as the representative of a company
or organisation; you would love being treated as a VIP and could combine
two strong needs in such a position. The theatre and film worlds might
also provide the opportunity for this kind of restless discovery of new
places, new projects, new contacts, and a chance to shine before the public..."

"...Being different requires an individual
path If you are very fortunate, you may find, or have found, just
the right niche for your particular nature and talents. You may have known
from an early age that you wanted to succeed in a particular creative
field. But if you have not been so fortunate in the past, there is no
reason why you cannot pursue your dreams more effectively in the present.
Life may each you some serious lessons concerning adaptation to the limits
of the material world, and the necessity of times of sheer, boring hard
work to achieve a goal. But as long as you are willing to learn those
lessons, you can have the kind of working life you most need to feel fulfilled:
an environment where you can be an individual and express your personal
style and creative ideas; colleagues who are stimulating and challenging,
and engage you intellectually and imaginatively; and a chance for a wider
public to see and appreciate your gifts..."

"...The need to be yourself dominates all
other work requirements Whatever field you choose to work in, you must be able to utilise
your individuality and personal vision to make your way in life. You cannot
sell someone else's product, or copy someone else's creative style, or
promulgate someone else's ideas. "Job satisfaction", for you, comes from
recognition of your specialness, and the knowledge that you have offered
what is genuinely and authentically your own, to the best of your ability.
You do not want to be ordinary and live an ordinary, safe life. You would
rather take a few risks and endure a few hard knocks, and know that you
have been loyal to your own soul..."

"...You aren't the only one on stage Your chief limitation, in terms of your work, arises from your
greatest asset: your intuitive understanding of the importance of self-expression,
and your instinctive sense of being a special individual with a special
destiny. This gives you the courage to offer truly innovative creative
ideas and develop an original style; but it may also cause you problems
if you forget that others, too, are special and have something of their
own to contribute. You need to be careful of the "prima donna" mentality
which might lead to condescension toward those whom you perceive as not
especially creative, and which could also lead to a hostile and competitive
atmosphere if you have to deal with people who are striving for the same
limelight you are. Although you need, and deserve, acknowledgement for
your unique abilities, you need to be sufficiently sensitive to those
around you to avoid inadvertently treading on their toes or dealing with
them in an offhand way. Specialness is not mutually exclusive of equality
in terms of human value. You may need to learn to recognise the worth
of those who do not possess your talents; and you may also need to let
them have some room on the stage..."

"...A deep need to connect with the inner
world Although much of your energy and focus is on expressing yourself
to the outer world, you are a more introverted person than you might seem
or believe yourself to be; and you need a strong commitment to an inner
reality to help you avoid being too influenced or inflated by the approval
or disapproval of those around you. Your loyalty to your own deepest values
must come first, and the applause of the audience only second..."

"...A one-person band You can be warm and generous, spontaneous and forthcoming with
compliments and support when it suits you. Colleagues may be the happy
beneficiaries of your genuine interest and encouragement. But essentially
you are a one-person band, and your working relationships are less important
to you than the expression of your own creative vision. There are both
positive and negative dimensions to this. On the plus side, your focus
on your own visions and dreams makes you self-sufficient and able to retain
loyalty to your individual values regardless of whether or not others
approve. Although you enjoy and often seek approval, and bask in the mirror
of others' appreciation, you are essentially self-motivated and driven
from within to express your particular abilities and talents..."

Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection /Wikimedia Commons

Short biography of
Louis Armstrong

American jazz trumpeter, a raspy voiced singer and
band leader who was known as the great "Satchmo" for Satchelmouth,
the size of his mouth. His infectious huge grin made him lovable to people
everywhere and he was known for his sense of humor and vivid energy. Armstrong
is the most important improviser of jazz of his day with his perfect pitch
and immaculate timing and he taught the world to swing. Innovation and
excitement marked his style of the music that is distinctly American,
born in the black quarters of New Orleans. With a record of top-ten hits
in every decade for half a century, Armstrong is memorable for "Hello,
Dolly," and "When The Saints go Marchin' In," as well as
his classics, "Weather Bird" and "What a Wonderful World."

Armstrong grew up poor among prostitutes and lowlifes
in New Orleans, working from the time he was a kid to help his family.
He sang on the street corners in the Old Quarter and taught himself to
play the cornet, quickly becoming acquainted with the culture of music
that could be heard on every street. His first big breakthrough in music
actually came from an arrest at age 11. He was arrested and put in the
Home for Colored Waifs for firing a pistol on New Year's Eve. Here he
received his first formal instruction in the cornet. He rose from a rough
and tumble childhood to become one of the first black men in America who
had the courage and clout to say, "I wouldn't play no place I couldn't
stay." At age 21, he was the talk of South Side Chicago, playing
in his mentor's band, Joe "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
So popular were the trademark two-cornet breaks he and Oliver worked out,
that they would perform with handkerchiefs over their hands to hide their
fingering from imitators.

At age 41, his records and movie appearances had
made him world famous. He had a rigorous schedule of touring, recording
and performing, gradually adding films and TV.

Somehow, Armstrong stayed down to earth, never moving
any further into drugs than his daily hits of marijuana, which never seemed
to hurt his playing. He was, however, known as a world-class eccentric,
his own man, brash and irreverent. His talents as a virtuoso trumpet player
and irrepressible stage personality were inseparable, as was his mugging,
teeth baring and eye-rolling.

An unabashed sensualist, Armstrong loved pretty women
and ate rich food: he married four times. His first marriage was to Daisy
Parker, a prostitute, in 1918. Joe Oliver moved to Chicago that year and
Louis took his place in the Kid Ory band. He and Daisy separated in 1922.
In February 1924, he married Lil Hardin, the pianist in the King Oliver's
Creole Jazz Band. He joined the Fletcher Henderson in New York City that
September and cut his first recordings with Henderson's orchestra.

On 11/12/1925, Armstrong made his first records as
a leader with his own group, "Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five."
He and Lil separated in August 1931.

From July to November 1932, Armstrong made his first
tour outside of the U.S., traveling to the UK. After European tours the
next few years, Joe Glaser became his manager in 1935 and remained so
for the rest of Louis's life.

In October 1938, he married Alpha Smith. They were
together for a few years before he met and married Lucille Wilson, his
fourth and last wife, on 10/12/1942. They were together for 29 years.
Lucille was a dancer at the Cotton Club where his band had a running engagement.
The following year, they purchased a home in Corona, Queens, where they
lived for the rest of their lives. It was his first "real" home
and meant to Armstrong that he had a haven and focus to his life.

He died in his sleep on 7/06/1971. Up to the last
few days before his death, he was rehearsing for the next performance
before his beloved public.

The Queen's College Louis Armstrong Archive, in Flushing,
NY, has some 5,000 photographs, 84 scrapbooks and 350 pages of autobiographical
writings, as well as 650 reels of audiotape.

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